I have discovered that the ‘Texture Paint‘ mode of Blender 2.5 is indeed rather awesome!! I’ve been playing with seams and one of the most frustrating things I’ve experienced is shading up a nice texture only to find that one of the seams doesn’t quite look right. But all is not lost, oh no!!  You see there’s this rather nifty (not heard that word for a whole,’nifty’ not ‘rather’) that lets lazy oiks like me paint directly onto the the model! Now it’s no Photoshop or Gimp but it does have a smooth and smear mode which is fine and dandy for smudging out those bleedin’ angular ‘stand out like a sore thumb‘ joins!! YAY but no hay!!
Look no wires I’m flying!!

Cuppa tea now to celebrate my new best buddie in Blender 2.5..